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OK, we know that Twilight is all the rage with the young chippies, and that (in spite of its popularity) there are some hard-core vampyre and Werewülf fans that feel that it was, well, just a bit silly. well, if you watched SNL last weekend, you would have seen what just could have been a better film had it been made instead.

I don’t know about you folk, but I honestly think that this would have made a better film, but that’s me.

The Perfessor

So, I just saw a clip for a new Vampire flick. according to the info I have the film takes place in the year 2019, after a plague has transformed most of the human race into vampires. In this über-stylized futuristic world of tomorrow vampires are the dominate race and run everything, while humans are on the verge of extinction. However, faced with imminent starvation, a vampire (Ethan Hawk) turns to a human (Willem Dafoe) and his band of the last remaining humans for help. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind. The film is called Daybreakers and is written and directed by Peter and Michael Spierig. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill.

you can watch the trailer here (I suggest you do, as it is wicked-cool, sexy fun—unfortunately there is no embedding function).

While I’m admittedly more Werewülf than Vampyre, this looks like a film that I’m going to want to catch.

Or you could watch the trailer here (just got the code—thanks Walt)

Daybreakers

The Perfessor

As our good buddy Walt will tell you, Vampires are all the rage. There is hardly a week that goes by where he doesn’t tell me about some writer who has turned blood-sucking into high art and good-old fun. From Twilight, to Moonlight, to L.A. Banks, to J.R. Ward, and of course there’s Blade. Anyway, last week, when I was in my local comic shop (A Timeless Journey), I came across a giveaway comicbook of TrueBlood the new HBO series about, well Vampires.

From the (well-produced) Top Cow comicbook, I learned that the premise of the series is about how the creation of a synthetic blood substitute that replicates all of the nutrients that are found in real blood has quite literally changed the way the vampire community deals with the human world, because now vampires no longer have to hunt for food. With humans no longer food, a shaky truce evolves between the two species, and, well, that totally changes the dynamic between the two races.

I’m not so much steeped in this mythology, but I do understand the dynamic, and from what I saw in the comic, the series looks interest. Still, as I don’t subscribe to HBO, I just may follow along with the comic series (which I believe will be forthcoming). Still, I’m more about Werewülves than Vampyres, but I’m an equal opportunity sort of guy, so — what the heck — check it out.

If Vampires are your thing, than any of the links above can take you to a dark place full of bloodlust, if — however, you want to take a different type of walk on the wild side, you just might want to take a peek at Psychosis! which is an illustrated horor anthology published by Guild Works Productions.

Psychosis! is an on-going 56-page, B&W, horror anthology. The main theme each issue involves a number of relevant looks at the fears that affect men and women in the 21st Century. Contributors to the title come from a number of different backgrounds and are a true mix of established talent along with enthusiastic younger talent cutting their teeth on powerful themes. Each issue features five eight-page stories, prose stories. Welcome to our world — welcome to our fears...

Somewhere between Madness and Mayhem lies...Psychosis!

The Perfessor

While I truly know how lame it is to go on, and on about one’s self, I find it necessary to tout my own horn every once in a while. So here goes. There is a real-live reporter fellow named Mike Gelbwasser (hey, you just can’t make up a name like that!), who writes for the Sun Chronicle of Attleboro, MA. Well Mike has this whole “Online Community” he services with his very fine column, and — as something of a funnybook aficionado himself — he somehow got hooked up with my pals over at the Comicbook Artists Guild (CAG).

Mike’s goal, you see, was to hook up with some funnybook folks local to him in the New England area, and well, we turned him on to our membership, so he’s been interviewing some of the New England group. (He already spoke to Everett Soares, writer of the wonderful Sky Pirates from Free Lunch Comics — Unavoidable aside, Free Lunch is the publishing empire of my good buddy Matt Ryan, the artist on Wülf Girlz).

Well, to return the focus of this particular post back to little ol’ me, Mike (for whatever reason) thought that I’d make for a good interview, and buttonholed me for to answer a few questions for him, which I was only too happy to do. The result, it up on line. Check it out. In the interview we talk a bit about my deep, dark past, How I “broke in” to comics, as well as some of the stuff that I’m doing today. So go on over and tell Mike that his column is very cool, and that you want to see him write about me more often.

And no, I’m not even going to mention the “Have you seen Walt S. Tip hotline” (1.800.WHO.CARES) because, as stated, it is all about me.

The Perfessor